[iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 12/17/01 (fwd)

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Date: 2001-12-18 05:38:26

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December 17, 2001

Suspect Claims Al Qaeda Hacked Microsoft
A suspected member of the Al Qaeda terrorist
network claimed that Islamic militants infiltrated
Microsoft and sabotaged the company's Windows
XP operating system, according to a source
close to Indian police. Mohammad Afroze Abdul
Razzak, arrested by Mumbai (Bombay) police
Oct. 2, has admitted to helping plot terrorist
attacks in India, Britain and Australia, India's
Hindustan Times newspaper reported Saturday.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/173039.html

FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data
The FBI is asking for access to a massive database
that contains the private communications and passwords
of the victims of the Badtrans Internet worm. Badtrans
spreads through security flaws in Microsoft mail
software and transmits everything the victim types.
Since November 24, Badtrans has violated the privacy
of millions of Internet users, and now the FBI wants
to take part in the spying.
http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html

Australian Linux community applauds Warez raids
The Linux community has applauded the recent
police raids on the Australian Warez community,
saying that stamping out pirated software will make
open source alternatives more attractive. =93This is
great for Linux,=94 Con Zymaris, CEO of specialist IT
services company Cybersource, told ZDNet Australia.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20262413,00.htm

Professors hash out emergency response,
cyberterrorism strategies. Although the potential
for cyberterrorism continues to grow, terrorist
groups now use the Internet more to distribute
information about attacks rather than to carry
them out, Georgetown University information
security expert Dorothy E. Denning told a
crisis management group yesterday.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/17642-1.html

Saint emerges as hacker tackler
The IT industry has formed an alliance to tackle
hackers, viruses and product vulnerabilities. The
Security Alliance for Internet and New Technologies
(Saint) is backed by the Department of Trade and
Industry and supplier group the Computer Software
and Services Association (CSSA). The alliance aims
to share information on vulnerabilities and new
attacks by hackers, and come up with fixes.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1127789

E-mail spam seen surging in 2002
New management services deliver help with onslaught
If your e-mail box is already besieged by unwanted
salutations and solicitations, brace yourself =97 the
onslaught is about to get worse. Driven in part by
anthrax scares, analysts say, e-mail volume will
likely grow 45 percent next year, up from recent
annual growth rates of 40 percent. A lot of it is
junk. How to get out from under the electronic
onslaught?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/673946.asp
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/12/17/e.mail.management.ap/index.html

Kid Porn Case a Cautionary Tale -- Part 5
It's been nearly seven years since Larry Benedict
was accused of swapping child porn, but his reluctant
trek through the criminal justice system is far from
over. The 44-year-old Xerox engineer's first brush
with the law came when a squad of federal and state
police ransacked his home in February 1995, looking
for illicit photographs. After three or four hours,
they carted off over two-dozen postal bins filled
with floppy disks, computer equipment and even his
stereo system.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49141,00.html

National ID Card Gaining Support
Navy Petty Officer Wellington Jimenez walked
into the identification room at Fort Hamilton
in Brooklyn one day recently and gave his name,
rank and fingerprint. In return, he got a token
of the future: a plastic ID card embedded with
a computer chip.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/173006.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52300-2001Dec16.html

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